But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image